Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-27

V0uNG AND eLD MEN.
TFroDt As Ne1r York Sun
In the year 1929. when he vas 20 years
old, Nathaniel Macon resigned his seat
Ia the Uuited States Senate. He did 20
simply because be had determined to
retire from public office when he
reached that age. II he lived 30 long. He
VS. a strong maA. Jefferson spske Of
him 90 "the last of the Romans He
had for nearly fifty years held office.
aad had been sixteen years q Senator
when be resigned. His friends urged
him 10 reconsider his discrimination, as
sertine that bis mind and body we're a.
COED AZ they ever we're. He replied that
be knew Il, and that he proposed for
that Feassn 10 quit public life before his
mind became 90 feeble that be would
not knoW when u vas time 20 retire.
Yet be had ten years Of health and per.
feet mental vieor before bin. bis pow
efs not falling until he Vaa almost 20
years Of age. Bot Macon seems 10 have
been strongly impressed with the aenti
meat 20 prevalent In this countFy-that
seventy years we're the limit Of a mans
uasfulness. ard that be should shut
himself up and wait for death when he
reached this age. Yet example altar
example might be given 10 show that
seventy years find MANY men in the
possession Of vigorous bodies, and that
some Of the best work that Our famous
men have done has been accomplished
after they have passed that scriplural
buRbeaT, three aoore and ten.
Alienists and other physicians who
mske huoy OF mental ana nervous
Diseases are aware tnat the apprehen-
slon sno gloom VIII which many men
permu themselves 10 be ettioted ~
tney epproaon the seVentieth birthday
nsve more 70 90 WITH weakening and
uSmoRahAlnR snem IMAM the burden OF
years.
man IN good health. and OF
soonu oonsutuuonai heritage, unim-
paired oy bad habits, would forget HE
aee, DC would DE quite likely 10 run far
over the seVentY-year limit before be
mas nus nina OF h0dx bufdened by
years, sald tae late llr. Beard.
ine coming of birthdays and the
oeieosaton OF mem make men think
that tner Gays are soon - be mum
oefso' eecause the scriptures say they
ouRnl 20 pe when seventy years are
reached. And when suoh splendid ex
amples ~ well preserved. vigorous
uinos rs Won mollke'a. or bismarck'a,
OF Dsifsseps' or ttladstone's. or the late
Loru neaconsneid's, or Psimerston's, or
brouRhAm are instaneed TO show that
men PAST seventy may reasonably hone
20 90 wotk tnat tells greatly IN the max
ing OF history or IN the perfecting OF q
career u IL TOO apt to be answered that
auen examples are exceptional, aAd, be
hdea' tne climate or Earope may favor
loneevitv, while the braeinR atmosphere
OF America tends to exhaust men early
fet We can match, and overmatch,
nteat nritain or the continental coan.
tires vita examples OF octoeenarians Of
epienuiu NlRor Aud perfecty sustained
powers OF mind and BODY. There are
700 many or these Illustrations that
ooutc De cited To Justify the belief that
they are necessarily exceptions. They
iatner sho~ that the chances are greatly
10 favor OF years OF continued strength
Ana mental viRor Tor him who u ap
pfoachine the sctipsural limit in the
unincalfed possession OF bis faculties,
ena tnat the man who passes his seven.
teth oirtnday IN good health u jnst
snterine tue youth OF old age, aud not
lts limit
when David Dndiey Field IL seen
Walking erect, With vigorous step, clear
eye and rudy cheeks. down broaavay.
GOING nis littie nreatheF or two oE three
miles daily. aud working IN hts Lac
once IKE any young fellow iost ad-
mitted 10 the bar, no one would think
OF calling him old. He ts not. Hts
years are over NJ but the weaknesses
that make old age are not bis. and be
- therefore, not Old. How IL 10 that
ne Keeps 20 younet people ask Well,
there u splendid inheritance from a
VIGOROUS ancestry, NE IN which no
sight drafts on old age have bees
drawn. the cultivation Of the power ~
resisting all tendencies 10 worry or
anxtest, tne nahit 81 daily exercise In
the freah air, and the giving of free
refs 70 sense OF humor. Barring ths
accidents ~ life 20 which all moFtals
are liable, Mr. Field Ought 90 be able 10
enunt on tsn OF oosen years more OF
Acavity. hnt that viii make him 81, u
NAV oe sale, let mr., FIELD wonld not
nave 70 iook Tar 90 nnd that men o.
Neos' eoed sound minds IN prettv
tough bodies. are 10 be found Wis
nave passed thelf sun year. or closely
approaches -. Ihefe Vas bis long
ume frtend and netehhof, Peter
Scoper, whose mind vas anclo0ded a.
W WHO vas = Presidential casdidate
Nnen oe wss tonr pAst NJ and = very
pspecfAoie vote ne got, tool aud vhu
sAld 70 tse writer that u be lived ten
years more ne would see the pcNple &C
ocptia1 hls views on the Governnenrs
power sad dntf OF alone 'ssaing paper
currency and on the national banking
system Lee vigorous man ass no, fa'
Nns either. ioen there NAs Mt
Eieida ether friend. Iturlov Weed,
we MIRO vas acute and nen1oFy nc
impsifea, sud whose bodily visuf 90.
gosa NN
Ieefe vas the late asdee waldo